Chapter Seventy-Four: Beginning to Practice Bricks
"Your Highness, the craftsmen who made the mud bricks have already dried a batch, and the charcoal has also been broken, should we try to burn a kiln now?"
Seeing Zhu Gaoyun nodding, Zheng Shaoyun hurriedly took the opportunity to ask.
"Oh...... Yes, then you will light the first kiln. ”
"This ...... This is not tomorrow to light the fire, the villain is afraid of lack of manpower, too late to go to the kiln. ”
Hearing that Zhu Gaoxuan wanted him to light the fire, Zheng Shaoyun immediately coaxed.
"Hmph...... Don't make small moves for me, even if the king can't build a house, he knows that the house has just been built and suddenly the fire will make the house crack.
You don't know? ”
Zhu Gaoyun slanted Zheng Shaoyun and directly debunked the road.
Zheng Shaoyun immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty.
"Your Highness forgives your sin, what the villain has learned is the art of water conservancy, and he is really not very good at building houses."
Zhu Gaoxuan was upset for a while, these civil officials were too careful, and he sometimes unconsciously fell into the Tao when he twisted and turned.
But he is a prince, there is no need to waste his mind with these exiled prisoners, he turned to Liu Li and said:
"Liu Li, go back and send someone to send this Gongbu Langzhong, who is good at water conservancy, to Lantian Creek, and let him be responsible for guarding the embankment and dredging.
By the way, the wages have been doubled. ”
"Your Highness, the villain, the villain will also manage the craftsmen.
Yes, villains are the best at managing craftsmen. ”
Hearing that Zhu Gaoyun wanted him to guard the embankment, Zheng Shaoyun panicked even more, then he completely lost his rights, and he was inferior to an ordinary craftsman.
"The king of the craftsmen is a man, but there is no one to guard the embankment and clear the canal.
You do a good job, and a good job is indispensable for your benefits. ”
"But ......"
"Hmm...... Do you want to disobey? ”
"Don't dare, the villain obeys."
After dealing with Zheng Shaoyun, who was consumed by the desire for power, Zhu Gaoxuan walked south first, and saw a gray and yellow plain just over a hundred feet.
It was a plain of one-foot-tall mud bricks.
He doesn't have to worry about the manufacture of mud bricks at all, although there is little clay in Lantian and even has salt and alkali, but after firing red red bricks at high temperatures, there is no problem at all with the ground floor of the building.
Now there are more than 2,000 people outside the entire brick kiln area, digging and making bricks from mud.
There is a banging sound behind the brick kiln, which is that someone has broken the large coal mine mined, as long as it is thinner than the bowl mouth, it can be added from the top of the kiln.
Now when the kiln is dry, you can start firing.
Zhu Gaoxuan seemed to see red brick houses, which appeared in advance in the Ming Dynasty.
Ahh......h Ahh......h Cut...... Cut......
"Your Highness, you are infected with the wind cold, you must be careful.
Why is this damn weather getting cold all of a sudden? ”
In Liangwangfu, Xiao Hongmian in the main room nervously took Zhu Gaoxuan's hand and almost held him in his arms.
"It's okay, it's just a sneeze, it's not a big problem."
Zhu Gaoxuan rubbed his nose, he didn't care, he just had a small cold.
"No! I'll go to Lang Zhong and prescribe you wind and cold medicine, don't run away. ”
Xiao Hongmian took his forehead and pasted it on Zhu Gaoxuan's forehead, feeling a little hot, nervously pulled Zhu Gaoxuan, who was about to go out, pressed him back to the bed, wrapped himself in clothes, and rushed out with his cloak scattered.
"Don't!"
Zhu Gaoxuan was also a little moved when she saw Xiao Hongmian so nervous, but she was also helpless, her image would definitely cause misunderstanding and cause a storm.
So he hurriedly got up and grabbed Xiao Hongmian's hand, but unfortunately he was not as fast as Xiao Hongmian.
In the blink of an eye, Xiao Hongmian disappeared in front of him.
He could only smile bitterly and mutter: "Martial arts are amazing?" ”
"What's wrong with you, Your Highness?"
"Your Highness, don't have an accident."
"Your Highness...... Woohoo......"
Xiaomei and the other four people, who were alarmed by the sound of Zhu Gaoxuan and Xiao Hongmian, hurriedly ran over, and before they could figure out what was going on, Xiaolan, Xiaozhu, and Xiaoju asked eagerly, and Xiaoju cried directly.
This operation made Zhu Gaoxuan's face darken.
"Don't cry, I'm fine, I just sneezed a few times."
patted Xiaoju on the head to make her stop crying.
"If you have time to cry, you might as well cook me a bowl of ginger soup."
"Oh, I'm going to cook ginger soup."
Hearing Zhu Gaoxuan's words, Xiao Ju quickly got up and turned around and went to the kitchen to get busy.
Xiaolan and Xiaozhu looked at Zhu Gaoxuan nervously, still worried in their eyes.
"Get out of the way, I'll go and take a stride, and come back and take a hot shower."
"Okay, let's go prepare the hot soup."
Xiaomei was calmer and pulled the other two little girls to boil water.
When Zhu Gaoxuan was walking with his horse to fight this [crop style], Lang Zhong came, Zhuge Xuan came, and Zhou Zhengxiong also came.
Everyone is worried, although there are people in charge of everything in Lantian now, but the actual person who is in charge is Zhu Gaoxuan, and once Zhu Gaoxuan is sick, it may have to stop.
If Zhu Gaoxuan is seriously ill, it is possible to die.
"Ladies and gentlemen, His Royal Highness King Liang is in good health and not sick!"
After Lang Zhong carefully checked the pulse and came to the conclusion that he was not sick, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'll just say I'm fine, you're still making a fuss.
Xiaomei rewarded this Langzhong. ”
"Yes."
"Thank you, Your Highness, the villain doesn't dare to ask for a reward."
Zhu Gaoxuan waved his hand to let Xiaomei take Lang Zhong down, and drank the ginger soup sent by Xiaoju before he said:
"Since everyone is so together, let's go to the brick kiln workshop to see how the first batch of red bricks is doing."
As soon as Zhu Gaoxuan's words fell, Xiao Hongmian pulled his arm again and persuaded: "Your Highness, why don't you take a day off?" ”
"Haha...... It's the craftsmen who do the work, and it's not me, so I'll just take a walk and have a look, and I'm not tired. ”
As he spoke, he patted Xiao Hongmian's somewhat cold jade hand, stood up and walked out.
"Let's go."
Li Yuan, Zhu Anlan and the others looked at Zhuge Xuan, waiting for him to make an idea.
"Let's go, Your Highness's health is better than ours old men."
Saying that, Zhuge Xuan also went out with Zhu Gaoxuan.
Seeing that everyone didn't persuade Zhu Gaoxuan, Xiao Hongmian stomped her feet and asked Xiaomei to take care of her, it was not good for her to follow the prince to direct the business.
However, she soon dressed up and went to [Houde Academy], and she also had to do her job with all her heart.
When Xiao Hongmian arrived at Alfalfa Square, there was already the sound of reading aloud.
Zhu Gaoxuan and the others had already ridden their horses to the foot of the Holland Mountain, and by the time they were already on the line.
The craftsmen had already gone to work, and a chicken cart pushing coal came from afar, which was delivered from the Meixi Coal Mine that the five villages led by Liu Erdan dug together.
Zhu Gaoxuan gave them three copper coins per stone, and it was a daily settlement, which made other villages very envious, and many villagers came to him to apply to join the coal mining work.
But Zhu Gaoxuan refused, but asked them to wait, and a new job would start immediately.
Closer to it, there are mud bricks standing on the plain for miles in a radius of several miles.
All the mud bricks are of the same size, three feet long, one foot wide, and three inches thick, in order to facilitate construction and to burn as much as possible.